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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 11, 2015
Filed:
Aug. 03, 2012
Applicant:
Bengt-olaf Schneider, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Inventor:
Bengt-Olaf Schneider, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Assignee:
NVIDIA CORPORATION, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G09G 5/36 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G09G 5/363 (2013.01); G09G 2340/02 (2013.01); G09G 2360/122 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method for compressing graphics data, the method comprising sorting a plurality of coverage masks into an order of descending number of samples covered by the plurality of coverage masks. A first coverage mask is identified. The first coverage mask comprises a greatest number of covered samples. Additional coverage masks of the plurality of coverage masks are compacted in the order of descending number of samples covered. Compacting additional coverage masks comprises removing samples from the coverage mask that are covered by any other compacted coverage mask.